Robot Anime in live action - Average Execution

Rating: 5/10 (12 July 2013)

I walked into this movie not caring much about the plot or the characters (which as expected where extremely campy and/or cliché), all I wanted out of this film are bad ass fight scenes with robots beating the crap out of godzillaesque monsters.
Did this film deliver, yes and no...
Both the mech and monster designs were done really well; the mechs look as they should, i.e. giant towering pieces of metal and the monsters look like stuff that came out of Godzilla movies. The down side to the designs is that essentially all the monsters have the color palette of either grey or darker grey and it doesn't help that all the fights occur at night or during a storm...or underneath the ocean...while the mechs have a bit more color to them, they are killed off way too quickly leaving only the two protagonist mechs which as you guessed it...just so happen to be colored grey...
The film does well to capture the sheer size of the monstrosities however, as a whole, combat was done poorly. The vast majority of action shots are either low angle, worm eye or close ups - sure it shows how brutal every punch or thrust is, however, at the same time - its hard to appreciate the fight choreography when a fist or horn takes up the majority of the screen.
Overall, for a popcorn flick, its average. 5/10.